Peach Fly Farm

Tree of heaven it’s commonly called, aka alanthus altissima, stinky sumac, ghetto palm or tree from hell. This is the biggest of them we’ve been working to eradicate over the past 2-3 years on the farm. Able to grow up to 10 feet in a year, thrive out of a crack in parking lot pavement, producing hundreds if not thousands of viable seeds by its 3rd year, toxic to seed germination of other species within reach of its canopy and roots, insane suckering ability if you cut it down without killing it first and the host tree of the brown marmorated stinkbug and the spotted lanternfly. The wood is very prone to rot, flimsy and makes for terrible firewood. Brought to this part of the world as a garden specimen, or “because it was pretty” in the late 1700s. At the time they likely didn’t know the impact of introducing it or even what the term “invasive species” meant. Well, we surely know now. So if you’re going to plant trees, and you should for many a reason, do yourself, your neighborhood, your kids, grandkids and the ecosystem a solid and PLANT NATIVE!!